Our long-term objective is to drive computing towards a more interactive, task-oriented existence. To this end we work closely with Microsoft product groups and academic collaborators to research and ship technologies that will turn this goal into reality. Our focus has lead us to work on highly accurate entity resolution across multiple data sources that are semi-structured and noisy; and to build technologies for extracting, storing, ranking, recommending, and reasoning about these entities.
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David Hamilton DEVELOPER |
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George Puchalski DEVELOPER |
Jedidja Bourgeois DEVELOPER |
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- Sahand Negahban, Benjamin Rubinstein, and Jim Gemmell, Scaling Multiple-Source Entity Resolution using Statistically Efficient Transfer Learning, in Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), ACM, 30 October 2012
- Bo Zhao, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein, Jim Gemmell, and Jiawei Han, A Bayesian Approach to Discovering Truth from Conflicting Sources for Data Integration, in Proc. 2012 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'12/PVLDB), vol. 5, no. February, pp. 550-561, Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc., February 2012
- Jim Gemmell, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein, and Ashok K. Chandra, Improving Entity Resolution with Global Constraints, no. MSR-TR-2011-100, 30 August 2011
Product Impact
Our ethos is to make serious contributions to product via real-world systems building, in parallel to publishing high caliber research. Our group has helped ship several Microsoft products, including shipping code in:
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Bing (2010 - present). Entity resolution in several verticals including movies, TV, celebrities, events, wines.
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Xbox (2011). Entity resolution for unified search across movies, TV shows and episodes. Partly due to the success this update, Xbox is the most popular video player in the US and Xbox users spend more time consuming media than playing games!
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Bing (2009). Real-time Twitter search and trends.
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Bing (2008). Flight status active answer. Lead the way for the end-to-end active answer pipeline now popular in Bing.
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